Polestar 1K Is A Concept For An All-Electric Roborace Contender

With the heritage and strength of Volvo and Geely to back it up, Polestar has a legitimate shot of establishing itself as a key player in the electric vehicle segment.

The company’s flagship model is the hybrid Polestar 1 and its most important vehicle is the Tesla Model 3-rivalling Polestar 2 EV. As you can probably tell, the vehicle presented here isn’t a real Polestar model and instead shows what one designed for the eventual Roborace championship could look like.

Created by designer Fabian Brees, the car features an extremely radical body yet is still identifiable as a Polestar. Most notably, the front-end of the racer, dubbed the 1K, features sharp LED headlights with daytime running lights with a similar design to the ‘Thor’s hammer’ used by Polestar and Volvo models.

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As the concept has been designed for Roborace competition, it is devoid of a cabin and where you’d expect to find the interior is a glass-covered area showing some of the vehicle’s electrical systems.

The rear of the Polestar 1K is arguably the most radical element thanks to a massive diffuser and LED taillights that extend into the bodywork. There’s also a sticker at the rear reading ‘#DeathToAllHumans’. Evidently, Brees had some fun designing this futuristic race car.

The Roborace series has been crippled by delays, and when it does launch, human drivers will pilot the vehicles for the first half of each race before the self-driving systems take over for the second half. Formula E has become the latest proving ground for automakers entering the EV space and if Roborace proves successful, it could also attract car manufacturers looking to perfect their electric vehicle and autonomous technologies.